The more we have, the more we want, the more unhappy we are. We don't have to look far to see how life should be lived and we humans have made a mockery of it. Year by year we lose something. I can remember one of my Aunts singing as she did the clothes washing and wringing just like the bird happy to be alive.

Here you turn to the greatest teacher of all, capturing in analogy the lesson of both large and small. In the bird, we can see the entire world and learn the ways of citizenship therein! Splendid! Your poem thrills my heart with its song.

Amazing how we can learn so much instinctively and without effort. It is being wise and good that requires the most effort and as humans, we often need to overcome many of our baser instincts in order to transcend our animal selves...